Musings on technology and justice
Some researchers from African countries were barred from attending last week’s A.I. conference in Montréal due to visa issues. The story is covered in this Wired article The organizers of the Black in A.I. workshop were working around the clock with immigration experts, but at least 40 presenters were not able to attend. Even Justin Trudeau has […]
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Richard Brath, a partner at Uncharted Software and the author of Graph Analysis and Visualization, recently completed his Ph.D. thesis on using text in data visualization. Recently, Richard talked about his thesis with data visualization enthusiasts at Automattic. Before Richard’s talk, it seemed me that text has been treated as…
Feeling some despair headed back to Georgia, and the U.S. generally after a month in India. It’s about this question: Will Brian Kemp govern Georgia like Lester Maddox? Lester Maddox became the governor of Georgia during my childhood. He was openly racist, was famous for selling axe handles with which to beat down civil rights […]
Read More Who’s worse Brian Kemp or Lester Maddox?Originally posted on Data for Breakfast:
Most data scientists have to write code to analyze data or build products. While coding, data scientists act as software engineers. Adopting best practices from software engineering is key to ensuring the correctness, reproducibility, and maintainability of data science projects. This post describes some of our efforts in the…
Wired recently posted a piece on several of the ethics-related workshops and talks at this year’s NIPS conference. The article includes coverage of the Black in A.I. and Woman in Machine Learning workshops as well as talks like Victoria Krakovna’s on interpretability for A.I. safety.
Read More Wired article on ethics in AI systemsOriginally posted on Data for Breakfast:
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With over 545 employees spread over more than 50 countries, Automattic is one of the largest distributed companies in the world. Being distributed means that we, as Automatticians, work on our common goal to democratize publishing from wherever we wish. It also means that we heavily rely on online…
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